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In a day or two, a telegram summoned him home to a sick 

 child, and left me to drive home across the country alone, with 

 what specimens we had accumulated. It was a long, lonely drive 

 for a green youth. My part of the Survey ended with the de- 

 livery of the "state wagon" at Prof. WinchelFs home on State 

 Street. 



Even this brief contact with the genial, modest professor 

 was a benison to me and a sweet remembrance for all these years. 



Another trait which Prof. Winchell possessed that no one 

 has touched upon this evening, but which seems to me most 

 worthy of mention, was his scientific devotion and self-forgetful- 

 ness, regarding the rich iron deposits of our commonwealth, — 

 the deposits that are fast putting Minnesota at the head of all 

 the states in natural wealth. As has been told tonight by his 

 co-workers, he found and mapped out the best ore regions of 

 the Mesaba Range, more than ten years before any special 

 notice was taken of the discovery. By what is called practical 

 shrewdness, he could have made himself at least a millionaire 

 by securing a tract of this ore land for his own use. That he 

 did not do it, only shows the single and high purpose of a man 

 of science and a lover of his kind. 



